Amphitryon murchisonii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphitryonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 700 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
13 occurrences of Amphitryon murchisonii on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
13 occurrences- Ordovician100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
5 formations
- Kraluv Dvur Formation3
- Rhiwlas Limestone Formation1
- Fjacka Shale Formation1
- Jerrestad Formation1
- Pyle Mountain Argillite Formation1
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The named rock units Amphitryon murchisonii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amphitryon murchisonii and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Amphitryon murchisonii and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
300 taxa- Illaenus7 sites
- Lonchodomas portlocki7 sites
- Agnostus5 sites
- Ampyx5 sites
- Phillipsia5 sites
- Rectograptus truncatus5 sites
- Staurocephalus clavifrons5 sites
- Trinucleus5 sites
- Cyclopyge4 sites
- Dindymene4 sites
- Dionide4 sites
- Nankinolithus granulatus4 sites
- Phacops4 sites
- Trinodus tardus4 sites
- Asaphus3 sites
- Chirurus insignis3 sites
- Chonetoidea radiatula3 sites
- Hyolithes3 sites
- Phillipsinella parabola3 sites
- Pseudosphaerexochus laticeps3 sites
- Symphysurus3 sites
- ? Parapyxion fugax2 sites
- ? Paraschmidtella densipunctata2 sites
- "Beyrichia" barbara2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Amphitryon murchisonii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
7 references- Om de Chasmopskalken och Trinicleusskiffern motsvarande bildningarne I Skane6
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia2
- Middle-Upper Ordovician trilobites and stratigraphy along the Kyrkbacken rivulet in the Rostånga area, southern Sweden1
- Late Ordovician (Ashgill) Foliomena Fauna Brachiopods from Northeastern Maine1
- Ordovician Invertebrate communities in black-shale lithofacies (Prague Basin, Czechoslovakia)1
- The Ordovician trilobites of the Bala Area, Merioneth. Part IV1
- The Tretaspis Series of the Kullatorp Core1
Each of the 13 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Amphitryon murchisonii was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amphitryon murchisonii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amphitryon murchisonii was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAmphitryon through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hawle and Corda 1847